IES SIERRA ALMIJARA PLURILINGUAL BLOG

sábado, 18 de enero de 2014

NUESTRO ENTORNO.

OUR ENVIRONMENT.

We are working in the level of 3rd of ESO in a project called "Nerja.Our Environment". This project involves different subjects using a multidisciplinar topic: our environment. The different teachers are working with this group different aspects of Nerja related to its environment. For example, the teacher of phylosophy is working about different ONGs and associations set in Nerja; the teacher of P.E is working with different facilities of Nerja related to sports and the teachers of English are working with the students about the most traditional festivities and the most famous biographies of the most relevant and important people living in Nerja.

To watch the different projects it is neccesary to enter the blogs of the different teachers such as Rocío Fernández Mena, phylosophy; Carlos Rodríguez Arias, P.E( 3rd ESO level here); Dolorez Muñoz, English and Victoria Fernández, English.

jueves, 9 de mayo de 2013

TWO LOCAL FESTIVITIES: SAINT ISIDRO 15th of MAY and SAINT JOHN 24th of JUNE.

May and June mark the celebration of both Saint Isidro and Saint John in Nerja. Saint Isidro Labrador is the Patron Saint of farmers and has two shrines devoted to him in Nerja. In spite of the agricultural crisis the devotion for Saint Isidro is very strong amongst the farming community in Nerja.

Saint John´s day marks the beginning of the summer and is widely celebrated by everybody in town night and day. Typical activities include spending a day out on the beach, eating sardines, concerts, etc.

On 9th of May 1950, after the Second World War, Robert Schumman put forward a suggestion towards the creation of a peaceful European Union called "the Schumman Declaration" considered the birth certificate of the European Union.
1. Try to find out more about this date.
2. European Awareness: how many countries belong to the European Union nowadays? how many countries use the euro as their currency? The division between Northern and Southern Europe and Eastern and Western Europe? Important capital cities in Europe? countries and nationalities, for example, Norway_ Norwegian, Sweden-Swedish, etc? migrations? why is Switzerland not a member of EU? why are Norway or the UK not in the euro? what is the agenda 2000 and agenda 2020? what are the main enviromental problems affecting EU? European Arts in the globalized world, such as painting, literature, sculpture, graffiti, etc?

jueves, 18 de abril de 2013

All over the world May 1st marks the celebration of the workers' movement.We are going to put forward some suggestions to be implemented at different levels:

1.Find out about the origin of that date.
2. Search for more information related to the International workers' movement: first, second, third...internationals.
3.Compare the song "the International" in the Spanish and English versions.
4.Look up the concepts of Anarchism, Communism, Socialism, and modern utopias.
5.Debate: Does Child labour exploitation exist in our 21st century society? What other types of exploitation can you identify in our present day society?
6.Watch short film Kony 2012. Find out what Wikipedia says about that film. Try to draw your own conclusions.
7. Project: Art and design: draw a symbol to represent labour day bearing in mind all the images previously seen to celebrate that event.
8. Acronyms example ILO (International Labour Organization) = OIT (Organización Internacional del Trabajo. Guess what the following acronyms mean: WHO, UNESCO, FAO, UNO, EU, BBC, SAS, BFBS, GPS, UFO, LASER, RADAR, etc.